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We live in an oil-dependent
world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short
space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process – without planning for
when the supply is not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what
happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The
Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can
have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local
communities, which will grow more of their own food, generate their own power,
and build their own houses using local materials. They can also encourage the
development of local currencies, to keep money in the local area.

The book has three sections,
the Head, the Heart and the Hands. The Head explores the issues of peak oil and
climate change, and how when looked at together, we need to be focusing on the
rebuilding of resilience as well as cutting carbon emissions. It argues that
the focus of our lives will become increasingly local and small scale as we
come to terms with the real implications of the energy crisis we are heading
into. The Heart looks at where we find the personal tools for responding to
what can feel like overwhelming challenges. It argues that key to our success
will be our ability to generate positive visions of future, to harness the
power of engaged optimism, and overcome powerlessness. The Hands offers a
detailed exploration of the Transition model, setting out its principles, its
origins, the 12 Steps of Transition, how they were applied in the first year of
Transition Town Totnes, as well as offering a taste of how the model has been
applied in a range of other settings. The book also contains lots of ‘Tools for
Transition’, exercises and activities that can help to deepen this work in your
community.

Permaculture Design: A
Step-by-Step Guide is a unique, full colour guide that takes the budding practitioner
through the full permaculture design process. Let Aranya guide you through from
beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams combined
into this easy to follow (and carry) must have book.

Permaculture Design: A
Step-by-Step Guide has been designed, refined and tested on students over time.
Linking theory to practice, Aranya places the ethics, principles, philosophies,
tools and techniques directly into the context of the process itself. While
written for anyone with a basic grasp of permaculture, this book also has
plenty to offer the more experienced designer. This book covers; systems and
patterns, land and non-land based design, site surveying and map making,
project management, placement and integration, amongst many other topics.

Megan is a 14-year-old girl
who lives in Manchester with her mum and stepdad. Like most teenagers she is
entirely reliant upon technology, until a family trip to the Scottish highlands
reconnects her with nature and helps her to find solace during a turbulent time
in her home life.

Gill Hatcher (Team Girl
Comic, Go Wildlife) has created a wonderful story of a young girl coming to
terms with life, her family and herself, set amidst the stunning scenery of the
Scottish Highlands. Gill's own love of the outdoors and the animals that call
the highlands home radiates from the beautifully drawn pages and will enchant
and inspire even the most cynical, city shut-in.

In
response to planetary challenges artists must reclaim their traditional role in
communities as truth-tellers and agents of change. This ground-breaking
handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to
reach beyond the facts and figures of science and technology to harness their
creativity to make change in the world.

Sixty
experienced artists and activists give voice to a new narrative shifting
society's rules and values away from consumerism and commodity towards community
and collaboration with imagination, humour, ingenuity, empathy and skill.
Inspired by the grass-roots Transition movement, modelling change in
communities worldwide, Playing for Time joins the dots between key
drivers of change in energy, finance, climate change, food and community
resilience and recipes for action for readers to take and try.

Sacred Earth Celebrations is
revised and updated version of Glennie Kindred's best selling classic book,
Sacred Celebrations. It is an uplifting and inspiring source book for everyone
seeking to celebrate and honour the changing rhythms and seasons of the Earth
and her cycles. It explores the eight Celtic festivals, how they were
celebrated and understood in the past, the underlying changing energy of the
Earth, and the ways we may use this energy to create meaningful celebrations
for today to deepen our connection to the Earth and our fellow human beings.

Jack and Boo’s Wild Wood is
a children’s picture book story, for ages 3-7 years, about two children
exploring an ancient wood, smelling, tasting, collecting, exploring nature,
poetically written and illustrated in full colour with real photos. Includes a
woodland spotter guide, scavenger hunt and family activities.

The book includes a woodland
spotter guide covering spring to autumn, a simple woodland scavenger hunt and
ideas for activities to do in a wood.

Jack and Boo books are a
fabulous mix of fact and fiction for children aged 3 to 7 that will
inspire your children to get out and play, learn and imagine in nature. Perfect
for bedtime stories, inspiration for outdoor play, and also challenging reading
and information for children in Foundation and Key Stage 1 of Primary School.

What
do people think of when they hear the word Druidry? The real questions, not
questions about the old men in white robes stereotypes. What makes a Druid?
What do they do? Having been a practising Druid for over ten years, Cat
Treadwell wondered too. Asked to present a talk at a national Pagan Festival,
and unsure exactly what the audience would want to hear, she started a blog,
asking friends and colleagues (Muggle and Pagan) what they would like to know
about the Druid Path. Two years later they are still asking. This book answers
some of those questions. Cat has compiled and expanded on the common queries
(So, do you worship the sun?) as well as the day-to-day aspects of Druidry as a
lived path. She reveals how Druidry is constantly evolving to be relevant and
accessible in the modern world.

Science
Revealed considers the apocalypse in science as discovery. Biographies of
scientists including Tesla and Einstein reveal how our most groundbreaking
ideas result not from rational thinking and tapping on calculators, but from
visions, dreams, feverish delirium and other non-rational revelations. The
controversies that blow up when such insights clash with received wisdom are
often resolved in a manner most unscientific, and this is just one of the ways
in which what is simplistically called 'rationalism' often obscures truth in a
fundamentally complex world.